A critical edition of "Oliver Twist" which reprints the 1846 text - the last edition Dickens substantially revised. It provides backrgound and source material which focuses on the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act; significant 20th-century interpretations of the novel; and witty early reactions ...

A critical edition of "Oliver Twist" which reprints the 1846 text - the last edition Dickens substantially revised. It provides backrgound and source material which focuses on the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act; significant 20th-century interpretations of the novel; and witty early reactions to it.